Knife-wielding Danbury teen arrested on assault charges

DANBURY -- A 17-year-old city girl was arrested on numerous assault charges early Friday morning after threatening several people with a kitchen knife, police said.

Capt. Thomas Wendel, a spokesman for the police department, said the girl was in a car near Locust Avenue about 1:52 a.m. when she got into a fight with her boyfriend, who was also in the vehicle with three other people.

Wendel said the girl took out the knife and began swinging it around inside the vehicle.

"The only person she cut was herself," Wendel said, adding that the girl also allegedly bit someone in the car during the incident.

The girl, whose name authorities could not release because of her age, was charged with four counts each of third-degree assault, second-degree threatening and disorderly conduct, police said.